168 THE OOLOGIST 



MIGRATION OF THE OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH AT STAMFORD, CONNECICUT 1912 



ity, have you noticed how seldom the 

 fates will turn the wheel to help you 

 along the road of fame? 



I have just experienced the oppo- 

 site sensation. Recently while in 

 company of a Men's Bible Class pic- 

 nicking in the woods, I was called 

 upon for a short bird talk. I heard 

 the song of a Kentucky Warbler a 

 short distance away and made him 

 my subject. Finally as each present 

 admitted familiarity with the Ken- 

 tucky's song, I invited them to follow 

 me with my glasses and get a peep 

 at the author. When acquainted with 

 the form and color of this favorite 

 woods Warbler, I enlarged upon his 

 nesting habits, explaining that only 

 the advanced students are so fortu- 

 nate as to find the Kentucky's nest. 

 I told them that only the expert Oolo- 

 gist had any show at all toward study- 

 ing the nesting habits of this bird at 

 first hand, for he was an adept de- 

 ceiver and was the limit at stratgic- 

 ally enticing intruders away from his 

 admirably concealed nest. 



Fate must have directed my foot- 

 steps, for just as I had finished ray 

 peroration, a female Kentucky flushed 



directly at my feet and there nestling 

 at the base of a small sapling was 

 her beautifully finished hair-lined nest 

 containing three well-wreathed eggs. 

 Slowly and with manifest awe, the 42 

 interested amateurs in nature study, 

 filed past and took their first look at 

 a Kentucky Warbler's nest "in situ." 



It is needless to say that "Uncle 

 Cy" was boosted up another notch as 

 a real ornithologist and thus are some 

 reputations made. May 28th, 1914, 

 Kentucky Warbler, 3 eggs. 



ISAAC E. HESS. 



Philo, Ills. 



Some Central Pennsylvania Birds. 



During the spring of 1913, I had the 

 pleasure of spending several days of 

 May and early June in the mountain- 

 ous country of Huntingdon and Cen- 

 tre Counties, which lie in the central 

 part of Pennsylvania. The mountains 

 there are well covered with second 

 growth of timber, consisting of oaks 

 and chestnuts, with here and there 

 clusters of hemlocks and pines. May 

 7, in company with Mr. R. C. Harlow, 

 I made a trip to an extensive valley 

 which is surrounded on three sides 



